GaGa was born into a wealthy Italian family in Manhattan, new york, USA. Her father Joseph Germanotta is an online entrepreneur and her mother Cynthia is a communication assistant. And Gaga is their eldest daughter. Gaga GaGa 1 1+0 was supposed to be sent to Juilliard School in Manhattan, but later she went to Sacred Heart School, a Catholic school. GaGa learned to play the piano by listening to the sound of the piano when she was 18. She wrote her first piano music at the age of 13, and began to perform at night at the age of 14. /Kloc-At the age of 0/7, she was admitted to Tisch Art College of new york University in advance, where she studied music. By writing articles and analyzing reports, she concentrated her works on art, religion and social politics. Later, she dropped out of new york University to concentrate on her music career.
At the age of 20, she began to write songs for Interscope Records, and for pop singers such as Wildcat and britney spears. GaGa began to perform in this city after she moved out of her parents' house. On the Lower East Side of new york, she performed with Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand. Hoping to stand out from the typical rock singer, she chose to focus on pop music. When talking about her father's reaction to her drug abuse and striptease, "he ignored me for months." I was wearing leather slippers, and he felt very sad-he couldn't understand. " Meanwhile, GaGa fell in love with a heavy metal drummer named luc carl. In Rolling Stone magazine in May 2009, GaGa described their relationship and breakup. "I'm his Sandy, he's my Danny, and I just broke up." She said so. Later, he became one of the inspirations for her first album.
Music producer Rob Fusari compared her voice and style with Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the famous British band Queen, and was nicknamed GaGa by Queen's single Radio GaGa in 1984. She took "GaGa" as her early stage name and later evolved into "Lady GaGa", which means "Miss Fancy". Fusari also helped her write some early hit songs, such as disco paradise, dirty ice cream and beautiful, dirty and rich.
2006-2007: Career begins.
GaGa 19 signed Def Jam because the famous music producer L. A. Reid heard her singing in the office corridor. However, GaGa said Reid had never seen her. "I often wait outside his office for hours, hoping that he can talk to me about my music ideas and so on, but he never, he never even came out to see me." Reid abandoned GaGa three months later.
She stopped for several years until producer Vincent Herbert signed with Interscope in 2008. Many artists were shocked by her keen ability to discover music and hired her to write songs, including Akon's Konvict brand, as well as Fergie, Little Wildcat, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block, the most famous of which was the song Quicksand from the luxury album of Britney Spears Circus. GaGa was appreciated by Jimmy Lovine, chairman of Interscope in early 2007. He provided her with a brand through Streamline/Interscope, and also promoted her cooperation with Akon. After Akon heard the demo of GaGa singing in one of his albums, he found that GaGa also had a talent for singing. Akon finally reached an agreement with Jimmy to sign her to his own company, Jin Min, for live distribution.
In 2007, GaGa cooperated with Lady Starlight, a Lower East Side rock DJ, dancer and performance artist of the same name, and she helped GaGa establish her own fashion style on the stage. The two groups began to perform in bars in the city, such as Mercury Lounge, Bitter End and Lockwood Concert Hall. They also performed live performances, including "Lady GaGa and Starlight Satire". Their behavior is called "the ultimate pop funny rock show", which pays a low-key tribute to 1970s. In August 2007, GaGa and Starlight Revue were invited to perform at Lollapalooza, an American music festival. Their crazy performance shocked the audience. The performance was very popular, and their performance received many positive comments.
Initially, I focused on avant-garde and electronic dance music. Then GaGa found the most suitable music style, and she began to blend the classic melody of pop music with gorgeous rock music such as the music of David Bowie and Empress. "David Bowie and Quinn are my main sources of inspiration, and I didn't know how to make progress until I found them." Gaga said. "When I sang in a club in new york, many record companies said that my presentation was too dramatic, but when I went to interview for a stage play, the producer said that I was too blind to fashion and had no classical sense."
Through her relationship with Akon, she began to redo her first album with the producer. With a solid electronic foundation, david bowie style and Queen-inspired music, GaGa hopes to integrate her retro dance music with the urban melody. Although it is a popular song, it is on the edge of rock and roll. The first music they produced was the hit song "Girl, Girl, Girl" by Mtley Crüe and "T.N.T" by AC/DC, which was later included in the celebrity album.
2008-present: all over the world.
2008
GaGa came to Los Angeles to complete her debut album Fame with her record company. "Fame is to make everyone feel how famous they are." , she explained. "Pop culture is an art .. hating pop culture doesn't make you cool, so I hugged him and you can feel it in fame. But it's a reputation that can be shared. I want to invite all of you to the party. I want people to feel part of their lifestyle. " For this album, GaGa said that she "married" many styles, "from Def Leppard drums and applause to metal drums and city music." GaGa began to cooperate with a group called "GaGa's House", which regarded her as a fashion, stage performance and music myth. "In this industry, you have many stylists and producers, but I have my own creative team, and the factory in andy warhol is replicated there. Everyone is under 26 years old, and everything is done by everyone. " .
GaGa's first single Just Dance was released on April 8, 2008 and won the first place in seven countries. In the United States, "Just Dance" began to air on June 5438+ 10, and reached the first place in 2009, becoming GaGa's first American champion single. Up to now, 7.9 million copies have been sold worldwide. The second single "Poker Face" was released on September 29th, 2008, becoming the number one single in 20 countries, covering almost all the music markets in the world. This single has also become GaGa's second single in Zhang Guanjun, with a global sales of over 9.2 million. Becoming famous was officially released in the United States at the end of June, 2008 at 5438+00. It reached 17 in the first battle and sold 24,000 copies in the first week. This album has been well received by most critics, and Metacritic's music reviews give an average of 70 points. The online edition of The Times described the album as "a wonderful combination of Bowie styles, a dramatic middle dance inspired by the Queen, and a dance of a rich boy who pursues fame and fortune." Since then, the third wave of the album "LoveGame" has reached the top 5 on the bulletin board in the United States, and the total global sales volume of singles has exceeded 30 million.
"Fame" has won the number one sales in the world. Then GaGa's Haus began to turn his attention to the American market, and GaGa began her first tour of New Kids after being reorganized with Interscope's partner pop band the Block. On June 8th, 2008 10, GaGa started a small amount of cooperation with New Kids on the Block in Los Angeles until the end of June 1 1. She attended their concert as a guest and sang "Big Girl Now" from their new album "Block".
On February 5, 2008, 65438, GaGa was added to the 2009 BBCSound, a list dedicated to introducing new people. GaGa was confirmed as the guest of Wildcat's concert tour in Europe and Oceania from June to May 2009. On June 5438+1October 18, 2009, the tour began in Abadian, Scotland and ended in Perth, Australia on May 30, 2009. Choose to focus on pop music.
In 2009
GaGa's Just Dance was nominated for the 5 1 Grammy Award for Best Dance, but lost to Harder, Better, fast and Stronger from Daft Punk. On February 18, 2009, GaGa performed with Brandon Flor of the rock band Blackboy and electronic duet pet shop boys on the stage of brit awards in 2009. Pet shop boys performed their own hit songs, and GaGa and Flor joined in the second half to perform 1985' s hit single "West Side Girl".
On February 20th, 2009, according to Huliq News, GaGa donated the tickets for her Celebrity Ball Tour and the income from a meeting and greeting to the Odyssey charter school and primary school in Los Angeles to raise funds to alleviate their budget shortage. The auction started on February 7, 2009. In Yi Bei, GaGa was described as "the only time in my life that I had the opportunity to meet GaGa who worked hard for her children's education." The auction was managed by Giving Engine Auction Management and ended on February 26th, 2009.
GaGa's first tour in North America, the Fame Ball Tour, started on March 12, 2009, and received great praise. GaGa promised her supporters in advance that they would feel a high degree of drama from her upcoming performance. She said, "I hope what I do is more about andy warhol's ideas: pop performing arts, multimedia, fashion, technology, videos and movies. And they will appear together, and he will become a mobile museum exhibition. " GaGa's guest performance at Wildcat's Australian concert tour in May was warmly praised, but some critics pointed out that Gaga stole the thunder of Wildcat with her performance. GaGa appeared semi-naked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in May 2009, just for their annual "Hot List in Plastic Foam", which caused quite a topic all over the world. GaGa herself once performed in this costume. In June 2009, she announced that she would tour with Ken West, but the cooperation plan was finally cancelled.
On June 23rd, 2009, GaGa released the revised album The Fame Monster with new songs, and the first wave of Bad Romance won the second place in the Billboard Top 100 singles list. This song has set off a crazy craze all over the world and can be heard all over the world. The music video of this song has exceeded 100 million views on YouTube in just three months. GaGa's crazy modeling in music videos has also caused a worldwide imitation craze, and the big sale of this song has made GaGa more famous all over the world. With the release of the revised album "The Fame Monster", GaGa launched a brand-new world tour concert "Monster Ball Tour", and all tickets in North America were sold out, while foreign tickets were also very popular.
20 10 year
GaGa became popular all over the world with the song "Bad Romance" at the end of 2009, which made her quickly climb to the status of the diva of the world music in less than two years, and her music was also affirmed by major international music awards. At the 52nd Grammy Awards Ceremony, GaGa received five nominations and finally won two awards. Her performance with elton john at the awards ceremony was even rated as one of the best Grammy performances by the media. 20 10, she continued her "monster ball tour" around the world. She doesn't forget public welfare in her spare time. She took part in public welfare activities, including AIDS prevention, and donated all the proceeds from a concert in new york to Haitian victims hit by a strong earthquake.
On February 16, GaGa was shortlisted for three awards at the 30th brit awards Awards Ceremony and served as a guest performer. The last three awards were all won, making her the biggest winner in the 30th brit awards. When receiving the award, she sobbed and said, "Fans are the first people who want to believe me." In her speech, she also paid tribute to alexander mcqueen, a famous designer who just died. This designer once praised GaGa as her "muse", and all GaGa's crazy designs in Bad Romance were made by McQueen.
On March 3rd, GaGa official website officially announced that the music video of Phone, the second title song of Fame Monster album, will be premiered, which will be performed by Beyonce and GaGa herself. Telephone topped the dance music on demand list on March 5th, becoming GaGa's sixth single to win the Billboard dance music list.
On March 4th, GaGa won the Best Newcomer Award, the Best International Pop/Rock Artist and the Best Single of the Year at the Echo Music Awards in Germany.
At the end of March, GaGa officially released the music video of "Phone", the second title song of "Fame Monster" album. Her modeling in the MV is almost nude, and Beyonce's passionate performance and strong topicality make this music video spread rapidly on major websites and media. Even though the music video was criticized by many conservatives after its release, Telephone still topped many charts.
In May, GaGa official website announced the additional performance of Monster Ball Tour 20 1 1, and also announced that the third wave of Alejandro will be officially released on June 1.
GaGa's music won great recognition again at the 20 10 World Music Awards. She arranged five awards, including the best pop singer, and became the biggest winner of this year's World Music Awards.
In early June, GaGa told Larry King that her lupus test was positive, but so far, she is not sure whether she has lupus.
On June 8th, official website officially broadcast the third wave of music video featuring Alejandro. GaGa's image as a nun in MV was immediately criticized by conservatives. Katy Perry, a famous American singer, also expressed her dissatisfaction with the video on Twitter because she is a devout Catholic, but she herself said that the video was dedicated to her famous designer friend Alexander McQueen, who died at the beginning of the year, and the topic created by the video also made the number of hits reach 8 million in just three days. Katy Perry quickly clarified that she didn't treat GaGa as a person, and the incident ended in vain.
In July, Bad Romance became the most watched movie on YouTube's fifth anniversary.
On July 9th, GaGa performed on NBC's morning live broadcast festival program "Today", which attracted more than 20,000 fans, setting a record for the largest number of people on the scene since the station started broadcasting.
On August 12, GaGa announced her debut at the Staples Sports Center in Los Angeles. So far, the album sales exceeded130,000, and the single sales exceeded 5 10/0,000!
In September, the annual MTV Music Video Awards were held in Los Angeles. GaGa was shortlisted with 13 entries, setting a record for the largest number of entries in a single session in history. Finally, she won eight awards, including the best music video of the year. She shed tears when receiving the award, and announced that her second album was named Born This Way, and she sang part of the song live. And she wore a set of meat slices made of fresh beef at the award ceremony, which once again made her a focus topic all over the world.
From June, 5438 to February, 2009, when he was performing at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, he announced to fans all over the world that the sales of the first special edition of The Fame had exceeded 8 million copies.
20 1 1
At the beginning of the year, GaGa announced the release of the second album "So Born" on May 23rd, and the first single of the same name "So Born" will be released from February 13 to February 1 1 day.
On February 1 1, "Born This Way" was officially launched, and immediately jumped to the top of the download list in 23 countries around the world in iTunes Music Store, becoming the best-selling song in iTunes Music Store. Although the single was a success, it attracted plagiarism and reaction comments. Born this way is accused of imitating Madonna's famous song "Express Yourself" and its single cover is also accused of copying the cover of kylie minogue's 2007 song "Two Hearts". Many people think this song is not as good as GaGa's previous songs, but other viewers think it is her transformation work. Despite the constant turmoil, this did not hinder GaGa's arrival as queen and the first day of radio downloads, and also broke the previous record held by Beyonce, the queen of action. 15 February, on the billboard Hot 100 single list, Born This Way reached 450,000 downloads only three days after it was launched, making it the third hottest 100 single of GaGa, and the 1000 single and the 20th airborne champion single since the billboard list was founded half a century ago. Born this way has been in the champion position for six consecutive weeks since the first week of airborne champion, but this record was interrupted by Katy Perry's E.T. (Feat). Kanye West) rose to the top of the list.
On February 13, the 53rd Grammy Awards Ceremony was held in Los Angeles. She sat in an egg-shaped container, carried by several dancers, and didn't show up until she officially performed her new single "Born this way". Her exquisite performance on the stage and radiant stage layout have become the biggest highlight of this Grammy, and have also become a topic that many fans talk about. At this award ceremony, she won the Best Pop Female Singer, Best Music Short Film and Best Pop Album, becoming the biggest winner of this Grammy Award.
On March 1 1, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in eastern Japan, Asia, which triggered a tsunami. Many big cities along the coast of the country were flooded and suffered heavy losses. GaGa, who has always been loved by Japanese fans, immediately sold her own disaster relief bracelet online the next day, and invited fans and European and American stars to donate money to respond to the disaster relief.
The second hit single "Judas" was originally scheduled to be released on May 8th, but it was advanced to April 19 due to leaks. However, April 16 was streamed online, so it was put on the shelves that day. In the MV, GaGa fell in love with Judah. Because she couldn't forgive her mistake of not killing Judas, she couldn't move on. She took betrayal too seriously, forgave the person she loved, and was forgiven by the person she loved, so she let herself replace all the sins and let the secular torture herself to death, so she was finally stoned to death. Equally controversial is that Jesus in this MV is played by a black man. Due to many controversies and the similarity between the genre and the old single Romance, Judas did not get the expected good results. It just landed at 10 on the billboard list in the first week, and then it quickly declined and quickly faded out of people's sight. Although the performance of the single is not satisfactory, its MV click-through rate is the highest among the four music videos released by the album Born This Way, reaching107.2 million times. On May 7th, HBO showed GaGa's documentary The Monster Ball Tour in Madison Flower Square, new york, which was the first official video broadcast.
On May 9th, the first publicity single "Edge of Glory" was uploaded to itunes for sale, and quickly rose to the top of the download list.
On May 12, GaGa will form a cross-industry alliance with the video game industry of FarmVille, a popular Facebook game, and launch a brand-new GaGa theme game on May 17. According to media reports, Zynga, a large-scale community game manufacturer, will soon launch "GaGa-inspired farm games, as well as themes of albums and music videos, such as crystals, unicorns and sheep riding motorcycles" on 17. In addition, Zynga will also provide 10 related virtual treasures for players to exchange in Rewardville (player reward system). After GaGa Farm completes some specific tasks, fans can enjoy GaGa's new album Born This Way, which is scheduled to be released on 23rd. In addition, fans only need to spend $25 (about NT$ 765,438+03) to buy game stored-value cards, and they can download albums for free, and at the same time get extra singles and exclusive GaGa virtual treasures. GaGa issued a statement, hoping to share and celebrate the launch of Born This Way album with fans in a new way. "Zynga also has a magical place on the farm and in the countryside where fans can watch the game and be the first to hear the new album."
On May 17, GaGa saw the unexpected popularity of Edge of Glory and decided to send Edge of Glory to the radio station, officially making it the third single in Born This Way. In addition, the second promotional single "Hair" was uploaded to itunes for sale and produced by RedOne.
On May 18, Forbes, a famous American magazine, announced the 100 most influential celebrities in the world this year. GaGa pushed Oprah, who won the championship for four consecutive years, to the throne of 1. To know what kind of character Oprah is, GaGa's strength has reached an overwhelming level.
On May 23rd, GaGa declared that it was "the greatest album in ten years", and her second album born in this way was officially released. (For details, please refer to the evaluation of "Born this way" album)
On June 16, MV "Edge of Glory" was officially launched. The mermaid concept originally planned by the famous director joseph kahn was the final adoption scheme, but the filmed MV was finally abandoned, and the original director team was even fired, and GaGa directed new content herself. The MV was immediately criticized by many parties as "the most boring and disappointing music video", while supporters thought that she wanted to express her thoughts about her late grandfather through the MV. GaGa is also deadlocked with the director team. She temporarily gave up the original filming content and expelled the director team, which was criticized as "the biggest insult to the director". Supporters of both sides debated on Twitter, but GaGa herself has not made any statement on this matter yet. The saxophone player in MV died of heart failure shortly after the introduction of MV.
GaGa visited Japan for the fourth time on June 2 1~30. On the 25th, Akira Chiba was interviewed with her eyes closed and donated 1.5 million dollars to the victims of the earthquake in Japan.
GaGa flew to Taiwan Province Province by private jet on the evening of July 1/day, and started her first trip to Bao Dao. The Taichung City Government designated July 3rd as "GaGa Day", and held a song concert in Taichung Perfect Outdoor Theater that day. The concert was originally scheduled to perform only four songs, but it was finally increased to nine songs, making it the longest performance and the most songs she sang to promote her new album. On the 4th, she attended a press conference at the Beijing Hotel in Taipei. When asked when she would visit Taiwan Province Province again, she immediately replied "Next year" and promised with "I promise" that fans from Taiwan Province Province will return to Taiwan Province Province for concerts when they tour next year. However, she was scheduled to leave Taiwan on the 5th, but she moved up to the afternoon of the 4th 10. It is said that the extra performance of the concert made her physically exhausted, so she went to Singapore to rest early.
20 1 1 At the beginning of July, GaGa said that she would release the fourth single, with "More than One" as the fourth single, because the third single "Edge of Glory" has reached the limit ranking of Hot 100. As for "Yu Yi", some fans rumored that it was a lyric song "You and Me".
On July 20th, GaGa officially started the MV shooting of the fourth single. During her visit to Taiwan Province Province, Gaga revealed that she was preparing to release the fourth single of the album. She said that this single will wait until after the shooting of the MV, and when the MV is broadcast, it will simultaneously turn on the radio for on-demand and online download. In an interview with the program on July 25th, US time, she revealed that the fourth single was "Yoü and Me". The MV of this new single was originally scheduled to be released on August 19, but GaGa herself released it on her Twitter website on August 16. Mermaid modeling and the story of her becoming a man named Joe Calderon and kissing herself have become hot topics. In the end, the single lived up to expectations and ranked sixth on the billboard Hot 100 list.
On August 28th, the MTV Music Video Awards made its grand debut in Los Angeles. GaGa became Jo Calderone in the MV of Joandi, attended the award ceremony and was the opening guest of the ceremony. Brian May, the guitarist of the legendary band Queen, specially accompanied her. With the MV of Born This Way, she won two awards, the best female singer video and the most inspiring music video, which made her the second-ranked singer in the history of MTV Music Tape Award with a record of 13 trophies, second only to pop diva Madonna.
In June+10, 5438, GaGa officially announced the opening of the next major single for the album. At the same time, GaGa also tells the song Marry The Night, which Gaga struggled and made great efforts in lower new york. Soon after, this MV started shooting. At the same time, Interescope Records Company also officially confirmed that it will release a mixed album and a Blu-ray DVD of Monster Ball Tour on June165438+1October 2 1. In addition to being sold separately, they will be packaged with the existing "Born this way" album and released in the form of super deluxe edition.